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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Kawaguchi in Japan


Earthquake location 34.8911S, 140.1294WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Kawaguchi in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 19:44:10 / 7:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/08/15 / 2015-08-15 10:44:10 / August 15, 2015 @ 10:44 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100032kn. Id of event: us100032kn. The epicenter was at a depth of 82.2 km (51 miles). Exact location, longitude 140.1294° East, latitude 34.8911° North, depth = 82.2 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isehara, Shisui, Atsugi. The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Yokosuka (c. 429 000 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Fujisawa (c. 394 600 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 23 km S of Kawaguchi, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.1294° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.8911° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 82.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km S of Kawaguchi, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-15 10:44:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-13 07:01:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 271 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.337 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 155 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us100032kn Id of event.
Event Code 100032kn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100032kn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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